Alpen-Panoramen, Panorama der Alpen

Thirteen essays on landscape photography by master photographer Alain Briot. Topics include practical, technical, and aesthetic aspects of photography to help photographers build and refine their skills. Also covered is now to be an artist in business. This book starts with the technical aspects of photography; how to see, compose, find the right light, and select the best lens for a specific shot. It continues by focusing on the artistic aspects of photography with chapters on how to select your best work, how to create a portfolio, and finally concludes with two chapters on how to be an artist in business. Alain Briot is one the the leading contemporary landscape photographers. He received his education in France and currently works mostly in the southwestern part of the United States. Alain Briot is a columnist on the highly respected Luminous Landscape Website.

Drawing on 20 years' experience, Joe Cornish, one of Britain's most distinguished landscape photographers, has distilled the key elements of his craft into a collection of thought-provoking essays accompanied by a selection of his photographs. The subjects range from his beloved North Yorkshire, where he now makes his home, to the rocky canyons of the Colorado Plateau and from the rugged Cornish coast to the rainforests of New Zealand's Fjordland. They have been chosen to reflect the enormous range of his work and to illustrate how he puts his working philosophy into practice. The text accompanying each photograph describes how the picture came to be taken and the considerations - light, weather, timing, composition - which dictated the choice of viewpoint, the selection of film and filters, and so on. Smaller images illustrate alternative shots, or other, less successful treatments, of the same subject or theme.

Although full technical data for each photograph is given, the real fascination of the book lies in Joe Cornish's explanations of the thought process that went into creating each of the photographs, many of which were captured after careful planning, while others were created by taking advantage of an unexpected opportunity or a moment of sudden inspiration. These very personal accounts are full of practical advice on subjects ranging from anticipating changes in the weather to the use of filters in order to capture colour as the eye sees it when, unfiltered, the film might show something very different.

Mante hat in der aktualisierten und erweiterten Neuauflage dieses Standardwerkes, seine Bildersprache und seine anerkannte Lehrmethode zum systematischen Erlernen der Bildgestaltung auf den aktuellen Stand gebracht. Eine von Fachleuten empfohlene und hochgelobte Schule für fotografisches Sehen und ausgefeilte Bildgestaltung.

Professor Harald Mante, geboren 1936, studierte angewandte Malerei und Grafik an der Werkkunstschule Wiesbaden.

"Bei einem guten Bild vereinigen sich Bildaussage, Farben, Formen und Räume zu einem harmonischen Ganzen."
Der deutsche Buchmarkt bietet inzwischen einige gute Bücher, die sich mit der Kamerabedienung befassen, einen fundierten Einstieg in die digitale Fotografie bieten oder sich intensiv mit beliebten Motiven, wie der Landschafts- oder der Schwarzweiß-Fotografie beschäftigen. Das Wissen um fotografische Prozesse, das Beherrschen der Kameratechnik, beides ist notwendig, um gute Bilder zu machen. Doch beides hilft nicht viel, wenn Fotograf/innen kein Auge für gute Motive und guten Bildaufbau beweisen. Dieses Buch versteht sich als umfassende Sehschule und zeigt, wie Bildideen entstehen und mit fotografischen Mitteln umgesetzt werden. Sie lernen, wie Bilder Stimmungen vermitteln, Farben die Reaktion der Betrachter beeinflussen und eine gute Bildkomposition den richtigen Rahmen für die Bildaussage setzt.